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foresters whom the pubHc must be protected against, and who have run 

 the risks of exposing themselves to the attacks of officers of the 

 American Forestry Association as a means of increasing its prestige, 

 its influence and its membership? We give a partial list. 



Bernhard E. Fernow, the founder of forestry in America, recognized 

 dean of forest education, first chief of the U. S. Forest Service when 

 it was a Division in the Department of Agriculture, founder of the 

 first professional forest school in America, editor and founder of the 

 Forestry Quarterly (the first professional journal of forestry), and 

 still editor of the Journal of Forestry, fearless foe of hypocrisy and 

 sham in high places. 



GifTord Pinchot, who with President Roosevelt established the Na- 

 tional Forests, organized the personnel of the U. S. Forest Service, 

 secured the control of waterpowers and of mineral lands in public 

 hands and is feared by reactionary interests for his present fight in 

 favor of regulation of private timber lands. 



Henry S. Graves, for ten years chief of the U. S. Forest Service, 

 who established that Service on an unshakable foundation and built 

 up its personnel into an organization of exemplary efficiency — who first 

 called public attention to the need for adopting the principle of regu- 

 lation of timber destruction on private lands. 



William B. Greeley, Forester of the U. S. Forest Service, who organ- 

 ized the Forestry Regiments in France and who has served as a Direc- 

 tor of the American Forestry Association since 1915. 



James W. Toumey, Director of the Yale Forest School and the entire 

 stafif of professors in that institution. 



Ralph S. Hosmer, Director of the Cornell Forest School and the 

 entire stafif of professors of that institution. 



Richard T, Fisher, Director of the Harvard Forest School. 



This list could be extended indefinitely until it would include the 

 great majority of foresters who unselfishly and in obscurity are "carry- 

 ing on" throughout our vast land the preservation and the upbuilding 

 of the country's forests. 



What special interests do the four successive chiefs of the U. S. 

 Forest Service represent, which are inimical to the public? What 

 special interests do the Schools of Forestry at Yale, Harvard, Cornell, 

 etc., represent against which the Association must be protected ? What 

 special interests do these State foresters represent, who have protested 



